[d at DCC] Petition asks government to prohibit TPMs on IT devices (fwd)

[Russell McOrmond]

   Forwarding this letter.  The petition had a good writeup in 
ITBusiness.ca today.

   I also sent a link to my MP. You may wish to use this media attention as 
a way to open a conversation with your own MP, before everyone heads back 
to the house for September 19.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:34:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Russell McOrmond
To: James Rajotte - Chair of Industry-Science-Technology committee
Cc: Heritage Minister, Industry Minister
Subject: Petition asks government to prohibit TPMs on IT devices

Copy to Hon. Bev Oda, Heritage Minister, and Hon. Maxime Bernier, Minister of 
Industry.


Mr James Rajotte,
Edmonton--Leduc
Chair for Industry, Science and Technology Committee

   I am following up on an earlier letter, I wanted you to be aware of this 
article in ITBusiness.ca:

Petition asks government to prohibit TPMs on IT devices
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=40289

   This article indicates I am looking for an MP who understands the importance 
of private property rights.

     "I want to get an MP who will hold up a camcorder and say,
     ''From my cold dead hands,''" he said. "If we can manage to do
     that, then we win."

     "DRM is state-sponsored theft," McOrmond said, adding the issue may
     require considerable education within the federal government. "We need
     someone who understands why the means of production and distribution
     must be in private hands. If we have to explain that, we're in
     trouble."

   As someone who has a background in property rights I am wondering if you are 
that MP.  Dealing with this policy would be so much easier with the help of an 
MP who understood the importance of property rights, and didn't believe in 
massive government erosion of property rights for what at best amount to 
questionable policy purposes.

   I can be made available to you to discuss this issue any time you are in 
Ottawa.  We can go over the petition and I can try to explain the different 
property rights holders that are implicated by current so-called "digital 
copyright" policy proposals.

Thank you.

Russell McOrmond
305 Southcrest Private,
Ottawa, ON
K1V 2B7
Phone: xxx
Cell: xxx
http://www.flora.ca/#contact

-- 
  Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
  Please help us tell the Canadian Parliament to protect our property
  rights as owners of Information Technology. Sign the petition!
  http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/ict/

  "The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware
   manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or
   portable media player from my cold dead hands!"